Obama Calls Yemen’s President on Cargo Bombing Probe
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President Barack Obama urged Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh to reinforce air cargo security as authorities in the U.S. and overseas pressed ahead with an investigation into the attempt to conceal bombs in airborne shipments, the White House said.
U.S., Yemeni and European investigators are working to uncover more details of a terrorist plot that revolved around two bombs concealed in printer cartridges found in packages that originated in Yemen. U.S. authorities have said they suspect a master bomb-maker from al-Qaeda made the explosives.